Sunday, April 8, 2012

Anchorage alaska snow

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A spring snowfall has broken the nearly 60-year-old seasonal snow record of Alaskas largest city.

(Huffington Post)

it continues unabated in Anchorage, Alaska -- where a new bout of precipitation this weekend helped the city break its record for seasonal snowfall, at more than 133 inches (3.38 meters). Some 3.

(CNN)

And the snow keeps falling. An epic winter in Anchorage, Alaska, was poised on Saturday to become an historic one, with 1.

(Alaska Dispatch)

That record snowfall came in the winter of 1954-55, before Alaska was even a state. As of 4 p.m., 133.6 inches of snow had fallen on Anchorage during the winter of 2011-12. Auto-repair shops and snow-removal contractors have made a small fortune.

(Alaska Dispatch)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Forecasters are backing down from an earlier prediction that Alaskas largest city could see its seasonal snow broken this weekend.

(Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska _ Its bragging rights for any Anchorage resident checking his math and sending out a public information statement on the snowfall. The snow would diminish by Saturday evening, the forecasters said.

(Syracuse Post-Standard)

Forecasters are backing down from an earlier prediction that Alaskas largest city could see its seasonal snow record broken this weekend.

(Tacoma News Tribune)

Alaska - Even by Alaska standards, this winter is unusual for the hardy residents of the states largest city. Near-record snowfall buried Anchorage neighborhoods, turning streets into canyons with walls of snow on each side.